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Month: September 2023 (Page 3 of 3)
Andreas Wasmuht is hosting a philosophy discussion of Martin Heidegger on October 9, 2023.
Martin Heidegger was the most important and controversial philosopher of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, Being and Time, explores what it means to be human, and challenges many of western philosophy’s cherished concepts. The question of being is not simply another ‘concept’ but a philosophy of life in which we are immersed.
Being and Time is one of, if not the most difficult philosophical works to digest and it his task to explore the key notions in a way which provides a clear insight into what it means to be human, according to Heidegger’s magnum opus. The talk will be in English with explanations of key terminology in German.
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm BST
Location: Queen Square (16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN) or online
Cost: £3.00 – £6.00
Book tickets here.
Join the departments of German Studies and Literary Arts in a three day event with poet Uljana Wolf!
Day 1, September 26: Reading at 5:30pm
Day 2, September 27: Lecture at 5:30pm
Day 3, September 28: Workshop at 4pm
Location: McCormack Family Theater, Room 132
All events are open and free to the public.
Six chapters of FLAAR Mesoamerica’s fully-illustrated discussion of zoology and Maya iconography of crocodiles of Mesoamerica are now available for you as a download.1. Crocodiles are obviously associated with Water, So in Maya Art, Crocodiles as associated with Water Symbolism
2. Maya portraits of Crocodiles as 3-dimensional ceramic figurines and deep-relief renditions
3. Full-bodied Crocodiles as roof of Throne Rooms
4. Crocodiles in Bas-relief Sculptures at Copan, Honduras
5. Crocodile Trees, Izapa, Early Classic Maya, Late Classic (Codex Style vases)
6. Crocodile and Composite Deer-Crocodile as Bicephalic Cosmic Monster
The bibliography and list of suggested reading on crocodiles and caiman of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador is a separate PDF to download.
For archaeologists, epigraphers and especially iconographers, lots of material here.
For botanists and ethnobotanists, the Crocodile Tree is of interest. Some are obviously Crescentia species, gourd tree (jicaro, morro), but there are other species not yet identified. Plus there are many trees in Guatemala named “Palo de Lagarto” with Lagarto meaning crocodile and not merely lizard.
Download them all here!
The ARIT will be discussing Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell by Pat Yale. It will feature an online lecture and in person with Yale, a journalist and traveler in Instanbul.
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Time: 6:00pm Instanbul
Location: ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu
Register for the zoom lecture here.
The New University in Exile Consortium is proud to present “The Suppression of Academic Voices,” featuring Judith Butler, Michael Ignatieff, Steven Pinker, and Kenneth Roth, with an introduction by The New School’s President, Donna E. Shalala.
On July 23, 2023, esteemed Azerbaijani economist and member of the Consortium, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, was unjustly arrested during a visit to Baku. He has been kept in detention under extremely difficult conditions ever since. This webinar is meant to call attention to this great injustice and press for Dr. Ibadoghlu’s immediate release, as well as to call attention to the many other scholars and human rights activists currently imprisoned around the world.
This is event marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is the culmination of a month-long advocacy campaign to free Dr. Ibadoghlu. Please join us and, by doing so, show your solidarity with Dr. Ibadoghlu and all the unjustly imprisoned scholars and activists who badly need our support.
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Location: zoom
Register for free here!
This seminar wishes to explore the negative overlap of thought and feeling in nonsense. This overlap is confused: for “sense,” already, is marked by a split.
Sense may speak of the understanding which thinking is said to produce – the thinking that “makes sense” – in which case sense’s negative, nonsense, would be the lack of rational meaning or logic. Yet sense is also sensation, a feeling, and thereby the touchstone of experience, of which nonsense would be the most
radical absence.
The proposition, “nothing in the world is without sense,” may be true. Yet perhaps it invites us less to dismiss the occurrence of nonsense than to question the lurking particle “is,” and to follow the invitation of nonsense away from the world “as is” and toward a world “as as” – a world that merely appears to be a world; a sense not for what is, but for what is like.
ACLA invites papers that investigate such nonsense in its many theatres – literary, philosophical, or otherwise.
To submit an abstract, please click here.
The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2023.
Join the Costen Institute of Archaeology Press’ Author Spotlight, featuring the recent publication of two volumes edited by Sarah Morris and John Papadopoulos. Ten years in the making, the volumes discuss Ancient Methone and recent discoveries by archaeologists.
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2023
Time: Lecture at 2pm, Reception at 3pm
Location: Manhattan Beach, California
RSVP here!
Join City Cemetery Director Annalisa Heppner for a tour of selected internments, monuments, and landscape features at Providence’s North Burial Ground. “Meet” historical figures, learn about headstone iconography, and the history of the burial ground itself.
The tour is free to members and begin at 4:30pm on Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Register here!
